Building Legal Search at TR

Written by: Mustafa Abualsaud (Lead Applied Scientist), Jeremiah Via (Lead Research Engineer) Legal Search — What Users Care About Legal search carries higher consequences than most other search problems: a missed result can mean a lawyer misses an argument they could have made in court or overlooks a risk that later affects a client’s case. The stakes involved are often significant and can carry substantial financial consequences for the client or firm involved. This is somewhat different from other retrieval problems, where the cost of missing a result is lower, and semantic relevance alone